格鲁吉亚 (Gé lǔ jí yà) — Georgia (country)

Definition

noun
Georgia (country)

Examples

  • 格鲁吉亚。
    Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Gé lǔ jí yà lǚ yóu.
    I want to travel to Georgia next year.
  • 格鲁吉亚。
    Gé lǔ jí yà Shì yí gè wèi yú gāo jiā suǒ dì qū de guó jiā.
    Georgia is a country located in the Caucasus region.
  • 格鲁吉亚。
    Wǒ de péng you cóng Gé lǔ jí yà gěi wǒ dài le yì píng hóng jiǔ.
    My friend brought me a bottle of red wine from Georgia.

Origin

Single-morpheme word
构词法gòucífǎ
音译yīnyìTransliteration

The characters spell the sound of a foreign word; their individual meanings play no part.

格gé
鲁lǔ
吉jí
亚yà

The characters 格鲁吉亚 only spell the name Georgia and carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
木木mùwood
Sound part声符shēngfú
各
各gè格gé
Same sound today

格 is built from 木 (wood) on the left and 各 on the right, which gives the sound.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 魯; 鲁 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 魯 pairs 魚 (fish) and 口 (mouth) to show fish entering the mouth, giving the sense delicious/excellent. The simplified 鲁 is a later shorthand, not the original picture.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

In the earliest forms, 吉 was drawn with a mouth-like lower part and an upper part that later became today's upper shape.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 亞; 亚 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 亞 likely shows an overhead view of a construction, perhaps a 亞-shaped tomb. Its later simplified form 亚 is just a shorthand.

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